The Minds of Billy Milligan: The First Man to Use Multiple Personality Disorder in An Insanity Defense by Daniel Keyes

BATB score: 5/10 🧐

*reader discretion advised* I personally love Daniel Keyes’ masterpiece “Flowers for Algernon” 1958 [BATB 10/10] and wanted to explore his other works “The Minds of Billy Milligan” 1981

Best to: Imagine 1977, a serious crime of kidnap and rape at Ohio State University has break loose where the suspect is a 22-year-old young male with 24 different personality; the world’s very first case of schizophrenia; then Billy Milligan, the suspect himself, wrote to Daniel Keyes and asked him to write his story! what an honor!

BATB lingering thought: and that was how Daniel Keyes, from an award-winning science fiction author, became a researcher, an advocate, and an author for non-fiction docu-crime-diary which is this book

Best as: it’s just a very long docu-crime-diary

Best as: Netflix “Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan” docu-series 2021 IMDb 6.2/10; Apple TV+ “The Crowded Room” series 2023 feat. Tom Holland and Amanda Seyfried IMDb 7.6/10

Best for: let’s watch “The Crowded Room” and “Monsters Inside” and then see whether you still want to read some more

Best quotes: “Me, a nothingness zombie in a nothingness box in a nothingness hell.”

“My final request is to be cremated - I couldn’t stand your dancing over my grave.”